Markwadsworth

LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )

• The Missing Homes Conundrum; Outright Lies

  Labour's timid ideas about modest rent controls/tenant protection have provoked the usual Homey backlash. Top of the list of counter-arguments is the missing... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Polls: Most Annoying Phrases of the Election Campaign & The Next UK...

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: Most annoying phrases of the election campaign Hard-working families - 56 votes Let me be clear -... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 DEBATE

• "We Had Hundreds of Family Meetings..."

  From The Daily Mail: The Kardashian family had hundreds of intense, emotional meetings to deal with Kanye West's decision to transition into a twat, Kim... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 DEBATE

• Things Which Most People Accept as a Given...

  … but which are actually a result of lots of self-reinforcing least-bad decisions taken collectively: - The nation-state with fixed borders - Land ownership -... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 DEBATE

• Glorious, Just Glorious

  Tony Hazell here. Criticise - sort of - buy to let subsidies. The praise greenie subsidies. Which admittedly he then decries. What can I say that has not alread... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2015 DEBATE

• "Cockroaches in Infested Halls Refuse to Pay Rent Until the Students Are Gone"

  From The Evening Standard: Cockroaches and mice living in halls infested with students are refusing to pay their rent until accommodation managers get rid of th... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2015 DEBATE

• The BBC Has a Good Article on Indian Bicycle Marketing.

  Following on from The Stigler's recent post on the alarming similarity between the major parties' policy on old age pensions, the BBC compares their NHS... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 DEBATE

• Fuel Economy

  From The Telegraph Consumers could be spending an average of £133 more on fuel a year than they thought they would as a report by independent consumer... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 DEBATE

• Fast & Furious Show 7

  From Wiki and Wiki: After breaking into the secure hospital where car salesman Swiss Toni is being held, Toni’s older brother, Rowley Birkin QC, a retired... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 DEBATE

• More Glorious Home-Owner-Ist DoubleThink.

  I do not know who decided to call the proposed annual tax on high value dwellings a 'Mansion Tax' but it was a bad idea (singling out one particular cut-off... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2015 DEBATE

• Glorious Bit of Home-Owner-Ist DoubleThink

  From an article in The Daily Mail on the Mansion Tax: House price rises good; house price falls bad Despite the setbacks caused by the global financial crisis,... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 DEBATE

• The Search for the Elusive Poor Widow Cools Down Again.

  MBK and Thomas B Hall both alerted me to this statistic: New research released by Barclays shows that the over 65s added £37 billion to the UK economy... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 DEBATE

• Dunning Kuger, Adam Smith, Competition and the NHS

  We had an interesting debate on here recently which drifted into a discussion about the efficiency of NHS and related matters. At the time one of my antagonist... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 DEBATE

• My Favourite Indian Bicycle Marketing of the Day.

  Ed Miliband, on super tip-top form, promises an emergency recruitment drive to get 1,000 more nurses into training this year if they win the election. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 DEBATE

• Why You Should Vote (2)

  From the Conservative mainfesto (p65): continue to increase the State Pension through our triple lock, so it rises by at least 2. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2015 DEBATE

• Voting Thoughts

  Bit of a personal post, but I'm looking at all my options, and here's my current thinking:- Greens: right out. completely hatstand (except CI and a couple of... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 DEBATE

• Fun Online Poll: The Value of a Place in a Queue

  The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows: What has more influence on the value of your place in a queue? The number of people in front of you ... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 DEBATE

• Modern Monetary Theory and Land Value Tax

  Random left the following lengthy comment on Lola's post on why LVT is inevitable, tidied up as follows: Every pound of govt spending comes back as taxation. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 DEBATE

• Sleazy News

  From the Daily Mail The 46-year-old had worked at a red light district window in Amsterdam for eight years. However, for the past six of them, she has also... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2015 DEBATE

• Green Party on Top Form.

  From Professional Pensions: The Green party wants to halve the amount of tax relief given on pension contributions to fund a non-contributory ‘citizen’s... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 DEBATE